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Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.54
The Peace conference [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 25, 1900.] In Hampton Roads, January 31, 1865. Lincoln did not offer to pay for our slaves. To the Editor of the Dispatch. Did Abraham Lincoln, at the Hampton Roads conference, offer any compensation whatever for slaves? R. C. W. The above inquiry having been referred to me, I answer with pleasure. On January 29, 1865, the Confederate commissioners—Stephens, Hunter and Campbell—left Richmond to meet the Federal commissioners at Fort Monroe. There, on January 31st, they met in conference President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. The conference lasted four hours, and Mr. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, has left on record a detailed report of the discussion there. Mr. Stephens pressed for a secret military convention between the two belligerents, with the object of uniting the people of the whole country in the defense of the Monroe doctrine, by expelling t
The Woodlands (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.54
said he, for six months, three months, one month, the war will stop. Both sides are tired of it. They now know what war is, and they'll stop it. A general truce, to include all the armies and the whole country, will inevitably force peace. When Henry IV of France got a truce —an armistice—a cessation of fighting between Catholics and Protestants—he secured permanent peace and the kingdom for himself. I did not know much about Henry IV, in truth, except that he was a gentleman who swapped his religion for a kingdom, saying, a crown is worth a mass, so I said what I thought—that a man who would change his faith for pay was a poor pattern to follow, and I had no idea of making professions to secure profits. But Stephens laughed, and said it would be perfectly justifiable to profess submission to the laws if thereby we could secure independence. I agreed to his proposition, though I could not understand it, nor do I now. Bradley T. Johnson. The Woodlands, Amelia Courthou
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.54
age 618). After a four hours talk, the subject of exchange of prisoners of war was brought up, and Mr. Lincoln said he would put the whole matter in the hands of General Grant, who was then at City Point, and then the conference broke up. I do not consider this an offer to pay for slaves. Within a week after this conference I met Mr. Stephens at Burkeville, on the Richmond & Danville railroad. I was on my way to Salisbury, N. C., where my headquarters then were, and he to his home in Georgia. The train was very slow, and we missed the connection at Danville, and therefore stayed all night at the tavern there. Mr. Stephens was full of the conference and the great meeting, which he had attended the night before, or two or three other nights before, at the African church, on Broad street in Richmond, and on the train and at night at the tavern he talked constantly and frankly, and I am gratified to find how accurate my memory is about what he told me of what had happened at th
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.54
t, they met in conference President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. The conference lasted four hours, and Mr. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, has left on record a detailed report of the discussion there. Mr. Stephens pressed for a secret military convention between the two belligerents, with tln was peremptory that the first condition of negotiation should be that the Confederates should acknowledge supremacy of the Constitution and the laws of the United States. That must be the first step, he said. To the Confederate objection that this was unconditional surrender, he replied that obedience to the laws of the lan not in the book. He said: Mr. Lincoln told us, you may take a blank sheet of paper and write on it, first, submission to the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and second, emancipation of the slaves, and then write any other laws you please below those two, and I will sign it. He did not mention the names of those
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.54
The Peace conference [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 25, 1900.] In Hampton Roads, January 31, 1865. Lincoln did not offer to pay for our slaves. To the Editor of the Dispatch. Did Abraham Lincoln, at the Hampton Roads conference, offer any compensation whatever for slaves? R. C. W. The above inquiry having been referred to me, I answer with pleasure. On January 29, 1865, the Confederate commissioners—Stephens, Hunter and Campbell—left Richmond to meet the Federal commissioners at Fort Monroe. There, on January 31st, they met in conference President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. The conference lasted four hours, and Mr. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, has left on record a detailed report of the discussion there. Mr. Stephens pressed for a secret military convention between the two belligerents, with the object of uniting the people of the whole country in the defense of the Monroe doctrine, by expelling t
Danville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.54
ners of war was brought up, and Mr. Lincoln said he would put the whole matter in the hands of General Grant, who was then at City Point, and then the conference broke up. I do not consider this an offer to pay for slaves. Within a week after this conference I met Mr. Stephens at Burkeville, on the Richmond & Danville railroad. I was on my way to Salisbury, N. C., where my headquarters then were, and he to his home in Georgia. The train was very slow, and we missed the connection at Danville, and therefore stayed all night at the tavern there. Mr. Stephens was full of the conference and the great meeting, which he had attended the night before, or two or three other nights before, at the African church, on Broad street in Richmond, and on the train and at night at the tavern he talked constantly and frankly, and I am gratified to find how accurate my memory is about what he told me of what had happened at the conference, in testing that memory by the statements in his book.
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